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Another of my online lives is on guitar forums (TGP etc), populated by diverse set of non-geek characters. An eternal question that comes up is “why are they c
by shermantanktop 1y ago
Another of my online lives is on guitar forums (TGP etc), populated by diverse set of non-geek characters. An eternal question that comes up is “why are they charging so much for this guitar? The parts can’t be that expensive. I bet I could just…”
And the only viable answer is the ol’ capitalist saw: they charge what buyers are willing to pay.
That never quite satisfies people though.
- ecshafer 1y agoEmploying labor full time is incredibly expensive in the US. Once you include overhead, taxes, benefits, etc. you can easily be paying 2x wage for a worker. Not to mention buying the goods. So yeah the parts for the guitar might cost X, but then it costs Y to store them and Z for the space to assemble them then A to pay the workers and B to ship them and C to market. It adds up. Without jumping to the EVILS of "Capitalism" a business costs money to run. I can't imagine guitar manufacturer margins are anything close to techs, probably <5%. Gemini tells me industry is around 3.8% so I don't think I am far off.
- BiteCode_dev 1y agoIn this case, you would need to pay someone anyway. I never heard about an AWS account that didn't require at least one engineer in charge of it.
- DougMerritt 1y agoWhy aren't they satisfied with merely pondering strats made in US vs Mexico vs Japan vs Indonesia? Careful reviews of quality versus price (which of course varied over time) always showed more correlation with sometimes-unwarranted reputation than with reality.
- shermantanktop 1y agoAmongst this crowd, “my buddy said” is data. Correlation analysis is not in the picture.